This HUGE Set Of Canonsburg Temporama Dinnerware Popped Up On Craigslist Friday Afternoon. I Couldn't Resist. Status: Added To The Vast Collection.

OK, so I talk a big game about searching craigslist without using keyword, but for real...I still do it. I DO, in fact, miss a thing or two by plowing headlong through reams and reams of ads to find those what lack the oh so useful keywords. Would have missed these had I not...and that would have been sad.

You might remember, if you've been reading Mr. Modtomic for a while, that I've kinda / sorta

been half heartedly trying to get a collection started of this pattern - Temporama by Canons-

burg - for a while.  This small "set" you see above is all I've been able to put together up until

now.  Three dinner plates, a pair of teacups and a chop plate.  Sad really, don't ya think?

So when a big, full, fat - if unfinished - collection showed up on craigslist I had a decision to

make.  It wasn't cheap but it was still bargain priced when you tally it all up.  But I DO prefer

to find my collections bit by bit and cobble it all together myself.  It's all good though, there are

a few bits and pieces I've got to come up with to fill it out.  Counting the 3 dining plates I

already had I have a total of 11 now.  Coincidentally, I've also got 11 of the desert plates!

The goal now is to have a complete setting for 12.  I've got 10 of these berry bowls and 8

bread plates.  It's not like I've done a ton of research on this pattern in the past but I didn't

even know that there were solid robins egg blue pieces in this pattern.  I wasn't sure that they

were actually part of the set at first.

Seeing the cap on the coffee pot and sugar bowl put that question out of my mind.  They are

a dead match.  Plus I looked around on eBay a little while ago and there were lots of bits and

pieces there in the robins egg blue.  And well, there's that blue in the pattern itself.  That MIGHT

have been a clue. It was such a coup to find a set with all these serving pieces and in absolutely

perfect condition!  Made Mr. Modtomic a happy man.

So yeah, here's where I'll be doing some searching, scrounging, begging and trading.  I've only

got 3 cereal / soup bowls!  Saturday morning my good friend Illuminate and I were staking out

an estate sale and when I showed her the ad for the set she wondered why there were only the

3 coup bowls.  My theory is that kids use cereal bowls more so than adults, and who breaks

more dishes than kids?  There are also a pair of serving bowls in this set.  I use bowls like this

for Pho and Ramen all the time!  Mr. Modtomic is a growing boy and he needs his big ol' bowl

a soup!

Before I set the dishes up to photograph I had to wash the dust off a few of them.  After I dried

them and started setting them up I had the big blue gravy boat saucer sitting on the table sans

gravy boat.  I had washed it and put it in a different place and consequently forgot about it.  I

was all like, "what the heck goes on this big saucer?  Nothing fits!"  After scratching my head

and furrowing by brow for a few minutes I finally spotted the gravy boat and felt kinda dumb.

Here's something weird, I've got 12 teacups (14 with the two I already had!) but only 10 tea-

cup saucers.  Seems like you always end up with much more saucers than teacups.  Not so

this time!

Look at the size of that BIG chop plate!  I can pile tons of chops on that baby!  The set is far

from complete but this large lot goes a LONG way towards getting Temporama out of my

system.  You should have seen me scouring eBay for a big Franciscan Starburst salad serving

bowl after I missed out on one that I lost to a higher bidder at an antique auction a few years

ago.  Once a pattern sinks it's teeth into me, it's hard to get free!